"She was like, 'F--k you. I'm going to do my own thing.' Russell replied, 'Fine, f--k you too,'" an insider tells the new issue of Us Weekly of Perry, who ended up in Hawaii with pals, and Brand, who spent Christmas catching up with a pal in a pub in chilly London.

Though they denied divorce rumors in November, when Brand told Ellen DeGeneres he was "happily married," the couple were frequently at odds. "Katy doesn't think Russell respects her parents' Christian beliefs or her friends," an insider tells Us.

"I'm married to Katy," Brand told DeGeneres of Perry, whom he wed in October 2010 at a tiger sanctuary in India. "Perpetually, until death do us part was the pledge."

Perry also go into the denial act, slamming seemingly endless reports that she was either pregnant or divorced.

"First I'm pregnant & then I'm divorced. What am I All My Children?!" Perry Tweeted, referring to ABC's now defunct soap. The singer punctuated her post with the hashtags #ericakane #pshhh and #ifihadadollarforeverytime.